[scribus] Scribus 1.5.1 Font Preview

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Mon Aug 17 07:26:34 UTC 2015


hi
> On 08/15/2015 02:55 PM, John Culleton wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 09:44:45 -0400
>> John Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Font preview in 1.5.1 has several columns
>>> marked a through f. Where are these
>>> columns defined? Based on the content "a" is the
>>> font type symbol,"b" is the same spelled out,
>>> and "f" is the owner of the font, system or
>>> user. What about the rest?
>>>
>> Never mind. The very latest version has
>> mouseover popup titles. IMO it was better when
>> the titles were simply spelled out.
>>
> There is some point to what you're saying, but it's also good that the
> necessary information has been considerably compressed horizontally with
> the help of these abbreviations, as well as elimination of duplicate
> information.
>
> Maybe instead of a, b, c, d, e, and f they might be T, F, E, S, O, A,
> and U, which at least give a hint to the fact they stand for Type,
> Format, Embed in PostScript, Subset, Outline, Access, and Used.
>

my older copy of 1.5 has a the column labels fully spelled out.
so it might simply be an error...

ciao
a.l.e
(and TFESOA is mo only marginally better than abcdef... as slong as TFESOA
are not each a well recognized abbreviation...)



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